Apple Cinnamon Crock Pot Steel Cut Oatmeal

Creamy, warmly-spiced Apple Cinnamon Crock Pot Steel Cut Oatmeal is a marvelous make-ahead breakfast to share with family. Set it up the night before and have delicious oatmeal in the morning!

Have you ever made steel cut oatmeal in your crock pot?

If you’ve made steel cut oats, you know it can be time-consuming to prepare it on the stove top. It requires 30 to 40 minutes of cook time, and because it can boil over easily, it needs to be monitored. My solution to this? Preparing steel cut oats in the crock pot!

The major benefit to this recipe is you simply put all the ingredients in a crock pot, give it a stir, and let it sit on low heat. You’ll end up with plenty of oatmeal that you can bring to work for breakfast throughout the week, or you can make this for friends and/or family when you’re entertaining overnight guests.

Recipe Notes:

I will say, you’ll definitely want to use full-fat canned coconut milk in this recipe to ensure the oatmeal doesn’t stick to the sides of your crock pot. The coconut milk will make the steel cut oatmeal super thick and creamy and delicious!

While you can serve the steel cut oatmeal with almond milk, I don’t recommend using almond milk for the cooking portion of this recipe, as it has a tendency to separate.

You can replace the pure maple syrup with honey or brown sugar if that’s your preference over pure maple syrup.

If you’re looking to serve more than 4 people, simply double the recipe!

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This is our Sunday breakfast this weekend, for sure! I just love you. Aren’t Stephie’s boot cuffs cute? She amazes me, and I made her. 🙂 Miracles do happen for sure! Here’s to hoping that I get to make you breakfast in person in 2014. Have a fabulous rest of your week, my dear.

I actually woke up bright eyed and bushy tailed after New Years eve – I think a week of festivities caught up with me so I was quite well behaved NYE! Even without the hangover though Im always in the mood for oats, so heading over now to check out your recipe 🙂 Happy New Year!

Ok. Here’s a real question. I’m planning on this for our breakfast Sunday. We’ll get up around 7:30 for church, but I’m a light weight as far as staying up late, so it’s 10:30 PM when we turn out the light (at the latest). That’s right at 9 hours. If it goes a little over, is that a big deal, or should I make it the day before and then re-heat it? Thoughts??

This looks AMAZING. I just found your blog today and I’m hooked! I adore oatmeal, so of course, checked out your oatmeal recipes first:) I just adore your style of blogging and your tastes in food.I can’t wait to see what’s up next! You’re very talented:)

Hi there! I’ve never tested the recipe using quick cook. My guess is you’d be better off making the recipe on the stove top with the quick cook versus the crock pot. Let me know if you try either method!